Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-10-13
SOME RAMPANT EDITORS.

QlSrepuUdDle Scneme, and branded as
such by all the prominent colored men
of the state.
SOME RAMPANT EDITORS.
If you want to see some mad men, step
into the editorial rooms of a number of
Democratic editors in various parts of this
state. Although the Democratic party of
Ohio is committed to free trade this year
there are some Democratic editors of news
papers who know that their business will
be injured by advocating the free trade
policy in their newspapers and they have
accordingly been very careful to avoid
falling into line with their party in
this particular.
But few weeks ago the Democratic
executive at Columbus concluded that
the free trade fight must be opened up
all over the state, and sent out to all the
Democratic newspapers a lot of stereotype
plates filed up with rank free trade ar
guments, with instructions that they be
printed in the next issue of the papers
above referred to; printing them with
out examining them and didn't learn un-
Ill their own papers came ont that they
had blOssomed out as free trade advo-
Gates. They are now kicking and insist
ing that the Democratic committee went
out of its way to injure their business.
The fact is, they will have to fall into
line with the free trade proposition or be
kicked out of the Democratic party
IMPORTANT ISSUES NOW
The present attitude of the Democrats
of Ohio on the tariff question is a menace
to every interest in the state-agricul-
tural, commercial and manufacturing
as well as a dangerous threat to the
workingman. The party in its platform
boldly declares for tariff for revenue
only. 1t practically indorses the Nor
rison tariff bill, in which wool is put on
the free list and the tariff on all other
articles either removed or reduced to next
to nothing.
The wool-growers of the state met with
a rebuff from the Democratic convention,
which not only refused to declare in favor
of a restoration of the reasonable wool
tariff of 1867, but would not even promise
tie continuance of the meager tariff on
Instead of this, the platform means, if it
means anything, that Democrats of Ohio
savor placing wool on the free list and
giving our wool-growers no protection
against foreign competition. The tariff
plank in the Democratic platform is
directly in the line of British interests, is
pGAmerican and follows the teaching of
the Golden Club of England, which is
unremitting in its efforts to ruin the
business interests of this country that
those of England may be built up.
What our last experience with the
tariff for revenue only, indorsed by the
Democrats, was, Hon. w. D. Kelly, after
speaking of the revival of industries and
replenishing of National revenues under
the protective tariff of 1842, tells as fol-
lows:
''The prosperity thus produced was,
however, to be short-lived, for in 1S46
congress substituted foe the protective
tariff of 1912 the tariff for revenue only
prepared by Robert J. Walker, then sec
retary of the treasury. The country had
never prospered under such a tariff.
Was it to do so now? Let experience an
swer this question The law went into
effect in 1S47, and though we mined ST.
100000, 900 of gold from the newly dis
covered gold fields of California during
the following decade, 1857 found the Ma
tion bankrupt, its workingmen and ma
chinery without employment, its banks
broken or in a state of suspension, and
the government again without credit or
adequate current revenue. This condi-
ton of things continued until, by the
protective tariff of 1861 and its war sup
plements, we made the duties on imports
so high that combined British capitalists
dare not, after paying such duties into
our treasury, undersen our manufactur-
ers. The experiment would involve
more capital than even they felt it.safe
to venture against such odds. Thus pro-
tected our industries again revived, and
with varying degrees of prosperity have
continued to expand.
''Free trade England is the Ishmaelite
of nations. Against her aggressive
spirit Manchester's science based on as
sumptions offers no protection. To pro-
mote her own trade she subverts the
weak, circumvents the ignorant and
credulous and betrays her equals. In
witness to these assertions, l appeal to
the story of her dealings with Turkey,
India, Egypt Japan and Ireland; with
Portugal, whose wool husbandry and wool
and worsted industry were destroyed by
the treaty of Methuen; with China, upon
whom she forces the opium trade; and to
her treatment of her American colonists
and the people of the United States,
whenever, accepting the faith she pro-
fesses, but by which she was not gov
erned, they have adopted tariff for
revenue only"
Ohio cannot indorse British free trade.
The voters will vote for the interests of
this country by casting their ballots for
the Republican ticket and protection to
American interests and American labor.
Where Capt. John Smith Lay.
The ViIginians cannot locate the spoi
where Capt. John Smith was TO have beer
killed. Richmond man says: Sometime
we have strong reasons for locating the spo'
at 'PowhatGn,' just below the city; then
again. we think it ought to be farther dowr
the river. Many relic hunters have chippet
pieces from big rock at 'Powhatan,' believ
ing that they were securing fragments Of tt,
stone upon which Smiths head was placed t.
receive blows from the clubs of the Indians